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...Sellout." Reaction to the President's message was predictable. "A sellout to organized labor," cried U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Robert Gerholz. Werner P. Gullander, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, was unhappy because 14(b), he said, "permits the states to protect employees from being forced into labor unions against their will." New Jersey's former Republican Representative Fred A. Hartley, co-author of Taft-Hartley, dismissed the President's proposal as "a ridiculous move." But labor was elated. Calling Johnson's statement "clear and unequivocal," the A.F.L.C.I.O.'s Meany said: "The question...
Forewarned, forearmed. Williams appeared in the Senate chamber and challenged the Rules Committee Democrats to repudiate the source of the leak or to "repeat in my presence and in the presence of the full Senate any charges or criticisms that they care to make." Said he: "As one who has tried, notwithstanding numerous rebuffs and insults, to cooperate with this committee and to keep this investigation on the proper track, I do not intend that these charges by innuendo go unchallenged...
...Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter, rendered in a heavy English Midlands accent, was the No. 1 bestseller last week. Right behind it was Count Me In by Gary Lewis and the Playboys. Gary is Comedian Jerry Lewis' son. Unfortunately, he favors an overdose of echo-chamber effect, which makes him sound as if he had his head inside a fishbowl...
...first few chapters are a capsule history of the House which are badly written and often inaccurate (e.g. "the Senate was known as the 'upper body' possibly because it met in a chamber on the second floor above the House"). The general point of the history is that the House was better off when it had strong leadership...
...Together--Collins pacifying, convincing, gently forcing; and Logue pushing, sometimes so hard and with so little grace that critics have come to regard him as a tin-horn Robert Moses--they formed an alliance for progress with Boston's major business and civic leaders--Charles Coolidge, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Gerald W. Blakeley Jr., head of the real estate management firm of Cabot, and Forbes; and James McCormack Jr., vice-president of MIT and an active force in the Chamber of Commerce...